CitiGroup is reversing course on their policy not to provide banking services to companies that sell firearms to people under 21. The policy went into effect after Parkland, but as we have pointed out before, relatively few mass public shootings are committed by those...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on Cincinnati's giant WLW-AM about Lott's newest piece at Real Clear Politics titled: "Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported." (Tuesday, May 25, 2025, 1:05 to 1:22 PM ET)
John Lott talked to Bob Frantz on Cleveland's WHK-AM about Lott's new piece at Real Clear Politics titled: "Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported." (Thursday, May 29, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16lzcF_xrnQ As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
Justice Thomas' concurrence highlights a massive loophole in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). The law lets plaintiffs sue gun companies if they "knowingly violated a State or Federal statute" tied to firearm sales or marketing, but the court is...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bob Frantz on Cleveland's WHK-AM about Lott's new piece at Real Clear Politics titled: "Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported." (Thursday, May 29, 2025)
A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about the Trump administration undoing Biden's DEI push in police and fire departments. . The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s pushes for onerous consent decrees on police and fire...
Dr. John Lott talked to Tom Grisham on his national Gun Talk Radio Show about our new research on the FBI's active shooting reports. (Sunday, May 25, 2025)
We had previously reported that 20.3% of total violent crimes in 2022 result in an arrest and that was true for 3.8% of total property crimes. That was obtained by taking the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total violent and property crimes that were reported...
“Quite frankly, what is in the reconciliation bill does more to support assassins than it does American families,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern. There was some laughter in the hall. “Yeah, well you know what? Talk to law...
Stephen Green, "CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today," Instapundit.com, May 22, 2025. This next piece reposts a link to our recent op-ed at Real Clear Politics....